2011/4/20 You and Yours Listening Notes (BBC英文筆記)

C1: Facebook Criminals: 聽障人士在臉書上遭詐騙
Deaf people are receiving fraudulent e-mails via Facebook inviting them to invest money in companies which - it is claimed - will give them impressive returns.
(1) freeze their assets 凍結資產
(2) cyber fraud 網路詐騙
(3) Make sure your password is hard to crack. 確保你的密碼難以破解

C2: Silver Prices: 銀價自2008年以來 已漲四倍
In times of economic uncertainty gold prices tend to rise but, in the last 8 years, silver has outperformed gold and has nearly quadrupled in value since 2008. Is silver a good investment?
(1) Gold is a deep, liquid market. 易變現的 (that can be changed into cash)
(2) Silver is a by-product of copper mining and even gold mining.
(3) derivative 衍生物
(4) It could be a bubble.
(5) to hedge against silver 避險..
(6) The currency is wobbly. 不穩定的
 

C3: No Room to Swing a Cat:
It has been revealed that our children are getting bigger but that train seats are getting smaller. Mark Stevenson muses on why spaces getting smaller even though we are getting larger.

C4: Australian Coastal Cities: 澳洲沿海城市面臨大量人口移入
Coastal areas in eastern Australia are suffering from a spectacular population growth fuelled by migrants and people forced out of some of the world's most expensive cities. Phil Mercer reports.
(1) congestion 塞車
(2) crumbling infrastructure 崩塌的基礎建設
(3) be ballooned to a bursting point  膨脹到爆炸的程度
(4) unassuming 謙遜的
(5) extreme weather events, rising sea level ...
(6) the haves and the have-nots
(7) Most of it land is uninhabitable. 大部份土地不適人居

C5: School Budget Cuts: 預算刪減迫使Tewkesbury 中學每周五提早一小時下課
Tewkesbury School is going to close an hour early every Friday to save money. How will this affect the pupils and how are other schools coping with enforced budget cuts?
(1) new academic year : 新學年

C6: Men with Eating  Disorder: 因健保不再允許男女混合病房, 有厭食和暴食的男患者被安置在精神病房或其他科病房而非該專科病房
Because mixed gender wards are no longer allowed in hospitals, men with eating disorders are being placed on psychiatric and other medical wards rather than in specialist in-patient units.

BBC Radio 4: Point of View: The ecological sublime : Listening Notes and Transcript

Listen to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00xj18g
Read the transript : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12241405

Fear of ecological destruction causes us to pity and protect nature rather than oppose it, says Alain de Botton

   The environmental dangers that now face mankind put non-scientific philosophical types like me in an awkward situation. We have to acknowledge that we can have precisely nothing interesting to say on the two most important questions in the air right now, namely: "What is going to happen to the human race?" and "What should we do about it?" It is not from a philosopher that you stand to be enlightened.
Nevertheless, maybe there is still a point in trying to reflect on, rather than simply solve our ecological dilemmas. It remains valid to try to fathom what the idea of planetary abuse has done to our minds. We may ask what the awareness of the environmental crisis has done to our inner landscape, how it has altered the human psyche.
    We can begin by observing that there is nothing new for mankind about confronting the possibility of its own destruction. The feeling that the present order - the neat fields, the ordered laundry cupboards, the full granaries - might soon disappear would have been intensely familiar to any inhabitant of medieval Europe. You need only study the carvings on the sides of the cathedrals to see that our imaginations have for centuries been haunted by visions of Armageddon.
Power
   However, we have grown used to conceiving of our present environmental situation as unparalleled. Perhaps it's because we have learnt of it through the media and because for the daily paper, everything must necessarily be novel. There never was a Lisbon earthquake or a sack of Rome. No one has ever murdered their children or wasted their money. This isn't to deny some intensely novel features behind our anxieties, just to insist that we should probably carefully separate out the familiar, long-standing morbidity of homo sapiens from the particular features of the current predicament.

   We might do worse than to date our present ecological awareness to the moment when the two bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These weapons showed us not only that mankind was perishable (an very old thought), but that it was perishable through human action (rather than because of disease-bearing rats). In other words, that we have acquired the power to commit species suicide.

   We have always known ourselves to be short-sighted and murderous. We have only in the past few generations learnt that we are also very powerful. We have been blessed with enough intelligence to alter our fates in a way no other animal can, while being denied enough wisdom to keep our baser sides under control.Yet despite similarities, environmental destruction differs from its nuclear counterpart in a crucial component. Generals who blow up bombs know they want to kill people. Chief executives who manage lorries transporting milk from depots to supermarkets generally have no motives more sinister than the wish to make some money for their shareholders.
When we use ample water to brush our teeth or fly to Florence to see some Titians, aggression is far from our minds. However, we are now daily reminded that innocent everyday actions have a cumulative destructive potential greater than an A-bomb. We have been asked to reconceive of ourselves as unthinking killers.
   The destruction is occurring not primarily through what any one of us has done, but through what we are doing collectively as a race. We are implicated in a crime we cannot control singly. Salvation must be collective. So we are guilty, but also unusually powerless.
Mystery
  Murderers have it easy in this respect, beside the ordinary citizen of the modern world. They can at least free themselves from sin by repenting and then changing their ways through their own willpower. They have no need to secure simultaneous agreement from six billion others across 193 countries.
Yet for us to give up altogether, to do nothing, is not an option because we are sternly reminded that if everyone thought this way, we would be lost. We are returned to the Christian injunction to avoid despair not because there is anything to feel especially cheerful about, but because hope is equated with humanity and a concern for other people.
The ecological situation has forever changed our relationship to nature. An unusually warm spring day cannot now be what it was for Chaucer and Wordsworth - a manifestation of the mystery and power of the non-human realm. Since our beginnings, the experience of nature involved an encounter with "the Other". The mountains and valleys reminded us that the planet was built by something other than our own hands, by a force greater than we could gather, long before we were born, and set to continue long after our extinction. We could go into nature and see that we were the playthings of forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.
   How mindsets have changed. The equation has been reversed. Nature doesn't remind us that we are small, but rather provides chilling, awesome evidence of our size and strength. We glance up to the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and think of how quickly our coal generators have heated the earth. We fly over the denuded stretches of the Amazon and see how easily we have gashed the planet.
Nature used to terrify us, now we terrify ourselves. We are responsible for the early flowering of those Wordsworthian daffodils. Our fingerprints are all over the uncannily early return of the migratory birds. We control not only the traffic and the planes, but also the very cycle of the seasons.
Empathetic powers
We have in response to our situation become hysterically sentimental towards nature. We take pity on her. We treat all of her like a wounded panda. We have come far from the attitude of the ancient Greeks, who saw nature as their adversary, potentially generous, but at heart a foe. We have lost all sense of the ancient fight and now feel responsible. Despite our puny frames and lifespans, we have even succeeded in feeling guilt towards glaciers.
   The role of the commentator on the environment is at one level to enable us to notice changes that are occurring. But at another level, it is also a question of getting us to care. And this is a tall order, for we are being asked to worry about the possible reduction in the number of our species three generations hence, when we all have to deal with a far more imminent problem - our own death.
   We are being asked to worry about other people who are not yet born as much as we worry about ourselves. Never before in the history of humanity have we been asked to care so much about others of whom we know so little. Our empathetic powers have been stretched to breaking point.

This may be where art has to come in. It is artists who are going to have to help us to picture - literally and figuratively - dangers which are generally invisible and are therefore constantly subsumed under the weight of our more mundane or personally intense concerns. Artists may have no solutions, but they are the ones who can come up with the words and images to make visible and important the most abstract and impersonal of challenges.

   The environmental crisis forces us to find our feelings of awe elsewhere, out in the universe. Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because it shows us things we will never master. Thus we would do well to meditate daily, rather as the religious do on their God, on the 9.5 trillion kilometres which comprise a single light-year, or perhaps on the luminosity of the largest known star in our galaxy, Eta Carinae, 7,500 light-years distant, 400 times the size of the sun and 4 million times as bright.
We should punctuate our calendars with celebrations in honour of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant in the constellation Canis Major, 5,000 light-years from earth and 2,100 times bigger than our sun. Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the 100 billion galaxies and the three septillion stars in the universe.
Whatever their value may be to science, at least the stars can be of use as solutions to our megalomania, self-pity and anxiety.

BBC Radio 4: Point of View: "News' and concentration Listening Notes and Transcript

Listen to the broadcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xb105

Read the transcript  : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12191104

Alain de Botton on our inability to concentrate.

  We pay a price for all the information we consume these days - and it's knowing less, says Alain de Botton.

One of the more embarrassing difficulties of our age is that most of us have quite lost the ability to concentrate, to sit still and do nothing other than focus on certain basic truths of the human condition.
The fault lies in part with our new gadgets. Thanks to our machines, of which we are generally so proud, the past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine has become almost impossible.
(1) succumb to =  give in to 屈服於 抵擋不住...
 
  But we can't just blame the machines. There is a deeper issue at stake - the feeling, so rife in modern secular culture, that we must constantly keep up with what is new.
The obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties. Something that if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellow human beings.
(2) be at stake: 有風險 成敗難料
(3) be rife: be abounding 充滿...
(4) be relentless: persistent :持續的
(5) instantaneously : immediately 瞬間地

Novelty
   The news occupies in the secular sphere much the same position of authority that the liturgical calendar has in the religious one. Its main dispatches track the canonical hours with uncanny precision. Matins have here been transubstantiated into the breakfast bulletin and Vespers into the evening report.
(6) liturgical: related to liturgy: ceremonial 禮拜儀式的
(7) dispatch: 新聞報導 電訊
(8) canonical : appearing in the biblical canon.conforming to orthodox or well-established rules or patterns, as of procedure.按照基督教規的 經典的
(9) uncanny (a.) 不可思議的 難以解釋的
(10) To change (one substance) into another; transmute ; 實體變換 : 基督教中 麵餅和葡萄酒變成基督的血 剩餅酒外形
(11) matins: 晨禱
(12) vespers: 晚禱

   The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of a critical transformation, thanks to the two driving forces of modern history - politics and technology. The earth must therefore be latticed with fibre-optic cables, the waiting rooms of its airports filled with monitors, and the public squares of cities ribboned with the chase of stock prices.

(13) lattice (n.) 格柵

  Contrast this with how religions think of what is important. For the faiths there is seldom any need to alter insights or harvest them incrementally through news bulletins. The great stable truths can be written down on vellum or carved into stone rather than swilling malleably across hand-held screens.
  For 1.6 billion Buddhists, there has been no news of world-altering significance to their faith since 483 BC. For their Christian counterparts, the critical events of history came to a close around Easter Sunday in 30 AD, while for the Jews the line was drawn a little after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman general Titus, in 70 AD.
(14) incrementally 逐漸增加地
(15) vellum 羊皮紙
(16) swill 使晃動 流動
(17) malleably 易成形 可鍛造地
 
  Even if we do not concur with the specific messages that religions schedule for us, we can still concede that we pay a price for our promiscuous involvement with novelty. We occasionally sense the nature of our loss at the end of an evening, as we finally silence the TV after watching a report on the opening of a new railway or the tetchy conclusion to a debate over immigration.
  It is then we might realise that - in attempting to follow the narrative of man's ambitious progress towards a state of technological and political perfection - we have sacrificed an opportunity to remind ourselves of eternal, quieter truths which we know about in theory, and forget to live by in practice.
(18) concur = agree 同意
(19) promiscuous (a.) 雜亂的
(20) techy = tetchy 動輒發怒的
  Fasting
   Rather than letting us constantly catch up on "news", religions prefer to keep reminding us of the same old things, according to strictly timetabled routines.
The Book of Common Prayer, for instance, decrees that its subscribers should always gather at 6.30pm in the evening on the 26th Sunday after Trinity, as the candlelight throws shadows against the chapel walls, to listen to a reading from the second section of the Book of Baruch. Just as on the 25th day of January they must always think of the Conversion of Saint Paul, and on the morning of the 2nd of July reflect on the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and imbibe the moral lessons of Job.
(21) decree 裁定 判決
(22) imbibe: to absorb sth, especially information 吸收 接受知識

   How free secular society leaves us by contrast. It expects that we will spontaneously find our way to the ideas that matter to us and gives us weekends off for consumption and recreation. Like science, it privileges discovery. It associates repetition with punitive shortage, presenting us with an incessant stream of novelty. For example, we are enticed to go to the cinema to see a newly released film, which ends up moving us to an exquisite pitch of sensitivity, sorrow and excitement. We leave the theatre vowing to reconsider our entire lives in light of the values shown on screen, and to purge ourselves of our decadence and haste.
   And yet by the following evening, after a day of meetings and aggravations, our cinematic experience is well on its way towards obliteration. Just like so much else which once impressed us, but which we soon enough came to discard - the majesty of the ruins of Ephesus, the view from Mount Sinai, that poetry recital in Edinburgh, the feelings we had after putting down Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich.
(23) aggravation: exasperation. 惱怒
(24) recital (n.) 贅述
  In the end, all modern artists share something of the bathetic condition of chefs, for whereas their works may not themselves erode, the responses of their audiences will. We honour the power of culture, but rarely admit with what scandalous ease we forget its individual monuments. Three months after we finish reading a masterpiece, we may struggle to remember a single scene or phrase from it.
Wisdom
   Our favourite secular books do not alert us to how inadequate a one-off linear reading of them will prove. They do not identify the particular days of the year on which we ought to reconsider them as the holy books do, in the latter case with 200 others around us and an organ playing in the background.

    There is arguably as much wisdom to be found in the stories of Anton Chekhov as in the Gospels, but collections of the former are not bound with calendars reminding readers to schedule a regular review of their insights.
  We are reluctant to admit that we are simply swamped with information and have lost the ability to make sense of it. For example, a moderately industrious undergraduate pursuing a degree in the humanities at the beginning of the 21st Century might run through 800 books before graduation day. By comparison, a wealthy English family in 1250 would have counted itself fortunate to have three books in its possession, this modest library consisting of a Bible, a collection of prayers and a compendium of lives of the saints - these nevertheless costing as much as a cottage.
(25) compedium: 彙編 概要

Elevate
  If we lament our book-swamped age, it is because we sense that it is not by reading more, but by deepening and refreshing our understanding of a few volumes that we best develop our intelligence and our sensitivity.
We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already are than St Augustine or Dante, thereby ignoring that our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption.

  We are often urged to celebrate not only that there are so many books to hand, but also that they are so inexpensive. Yet neither of these circumstances should necessarily be deemed unambiguous advantages. Consider the immensely costly and painstaking craftsmanship behind a pre-Gutenberg Bible - a product of a society which wished to elevate individual books into objects of extraordinary beauty so as to emphasise their spiritual and moral significance.

   Though technology has rendered it more or less absurd to feel gratitude over owning a book, there remain psychological advantages in rarity. We can revere the care that goes into making a Jewish Sefer Torah, the sacred scroll of the book of Moses, a copy of which will take a single scribe a whole year and a half to write out by hand, on a parchment made from the hide of a ceremonially slaughtered goat which has been soaked for nine days.
(26) revere: To regard with awe, deference, and devotion 尊敬
We should stand to swap a few of our swiftly disintegrating paperbacks for volumes that would proclaim, though the weight and heft of their materials, the grace of their typography and the beauty of their illustrations, our desire for their contents to assume a permanent place in our hearts.
(27) disintegrate: 瓦解 崩潰
   The need to diet, well accepted in relation to food, should be brought to bear on our relation to knowledge, people, and ideas. Our minds, no less than our bodies, require periods of fasting.

2011/4/6 You and Yours Listening Notes

C1: NHS reform: neglect and abuse in UK health service
 The elderly are the greatest casualties of the misguided determination to see patients as consumers and thr NHS as business rather than a caring service.

(1) endemic (a.) 流行的 難以擺脫的
(2) heavily decorated soldier 被授勳的
(3) scores and scores of harrowing experiences 另人斷腸的
(4) be molded over endlessly 

C2: Ofgem Online Advice

How to make sure you get the best deal on energy.

C3: Stem Cell Update

Eight British patients who paid thousands of pounds for a controversial stem cell treatment in Holland are embarking on legal action.
(1) give patients false hope
(2) The doctor was struck off 被除名

C4:

With three retail chains going bust in the past week, we ask will there be a bloodbath on the high street as the effects of the recession and tax changes kick in?

C5:  部份消費者抱怨任天堂新的3D產品導致頭暈眩

It's Nintendo's fastest selling console ever but some players have complained the new device leaves them feeling sick and dizzy. Will this have any effect on sales?
(1) Children under 6 should not play Nintendo in 3D at all. 

C6: Housing Panel:

Industry experts give their verdict on the current state of the housing market.
(1) be in line with the expectation

爆肝 英文怎麼說

爆肝: acute liver failure
http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/liver-failure/DS00961.html

Acute liver failure occurs when your liver rapidly loses its ability to function. More commonly, liver failure develops slowly over the course of years. But in acute liver failure, liver failure develops in a matter of days.

Acute liver failure can cause many complications, including excessive bleeding and increasing pressure in the brain. Another term for acute liver failure is fulminant hepatic failure.

Acute liver failure is a medical emergency that requires hospitalization. Some causes of acute liver failure can be reversed with treatment. But in other situations, a liver transplant may be the only cure for acute liver failure.

Signs and symptoms of acute liver failure may include: 猛爆性肝炎症狀可能有:

• A yellowing of your skin and eyeballs (jaundice) 皮膚及眼球變黃
• Tenderness in the upper right area of your abdomen  腹部右上方疼痛
• Nausea 反胃
• Vomiting 嘔吐
• A general sense of not feeling well 感覺不適
• Difficulty concentrating 注意力不集中
• Disorientation or confusion 茫茫然
• Sleepiness 想睡
• Muscle tremors 肌肉顫抖

打馬賽克 英文怎麼說

(1) 將影像模糊化: blur images  模糊的影像: blurry images

 

AFP:Swiss court orders Google to blur images on Street View

瑞士法院裁定谷歌必須將Street View 影像模糊以保護隱私

(AFP) –

ZURICH — A Swiss court said Monday that it has ordered Internet giant Google to make all images of individuals and vehicle plates unrecognisable on its Street View picture map, so as to comply with privacy rules.

(2) censored images: 遭審查刪除的影像
As it turns out, the goriest images were censored, and many pictures of American soldiers killed in combat were not allowed to be shown until later.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994297,00.html#ixzz1IojJiMFv

(3) censor images with a mosaic 打馬賽克

2011/4/1 You and Yours Listening Notes

C1: VAT loophole 海峽群島的增值稅漏洞

The Chancellor has signalled a crackdown on (取締) the sale of cheap CDs and DVDs from the Channel Islands.
(1) LVCR
(2) The loopholes are exploited.
(3) political gesture
http://www.vatloophole.co.uk/lvcr-covered-bbc-channel-islands-tv/569/


C2: The South Downs南唐斯丘陵從4月開始正式成為英格蘭國家公園

Having taken sixty years to become a National Park, we hear from the woman who has campaigned for the South Downs to receive National Park status for the last decade.
(1) iconic landscape
(2) serial compainer or one-issue

C3: High Speed Rail 新的聲音科技使預定高鐵沿線的居民能聽到一小時內28台火車經過的聲音

New sound technology enables people living near the proposed route of the high speed rail line will be able to hear what the twenty eight trains an hour would sound like.
(1) collect signatures on the petition 收集請願書簽名
(2) industrial, commercial and residential properties 工業區商業區及住宅區的建物

C4: Valuable Consumer Data 信用卡公司如何利用消費者購物的歷史來清楚知道消費者需求

How card companies use customer purchase histories to build up a picture of consumer needs and wants.
(1) aggregate and anomalize
(2) Is a service or invasion?


C5: Misleading Websites: OFT 取締不實特價的網站Webuyanycar.com
The Office of Fair Trading has clamped down on misleading web offers from the website Webuyanycar.com
(1) enforcement action 執法
(2) instant hit
(3) reappraisal 重新評價

C6: DAB follow-up 數位廣播DAB 後續報導 (Digital Audio Broadcasting)

David Blunkett MP speaks up for listeners frustrated by the limitations of DAB radio.
(1) 90 percent of coverage 百分之九十覆蓋率
(2) The burble, the breakaway and the lack of good sound
(3) a big overclaim of DAB

C7: Beach Cash:

Headlines about a poor seaside council spending money on trips to the beach for local children are not what they seem.
(1) splash out on sth 花大錢...
(2) economically disadvantaged 經濟弱勢者
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zt4h1

2011/3/31 You and Yours Listening Notes

C1: High Street Shopping: 英國銷售現況
As four out of ten items in supermarket trolleys are discounts or special offers, we find out how the downturn is affecting the high street.
(1) On the plus side
(2) turn the corner 好轉
(3) Sales figures are grim.令人擔憂的銷售數據
(4) CBI 英國產業聯合會
(5) High street sales are subdued at the moment.
(6) feel the pinch at this moment 經濟困難
(7) Price comparison promise
(8) Hard pressed consumers are much more conscious of values, bargains and quality.
(9) The shift has gone away from cheap throwaway/disposable fashion towards to fewer better quality purchases.
(10) It is the middle products being squeeze.
(11) blood bath 大屠殺
(12) phony war 戰爭狀態

 C2: Speed Cameras Switched Back on 測速照相機恢復運作 但費用從何而來
Oxfordshire speed cameras were switched off last year after a 40% cut in their Road Safety Grant provided by central government. But now they're being switched back on - so who's paying for them?
(1) penalty tickets  罰單
(2) reduce casualties on the road 減低道路傷亡人數


C3: Mobile Phones in Classrooms 學校是否該允許學生攜帶手機到校 以減低IT設備費用

With substantial cuts to their budgets, schools are considering using pupils’ mobile phones in the classroom rather than spending money on expensive IT equipment. But is it a good idea?
(1) obsolete (a.) 淘汰的
(2) loads of technology 許多的
(3) clear protocol in the classroom 教室清楚的協議
(4) hand-held device 手提的裝置
(5) Mobile phones have a disruptive influence on the class. 擾亂的


C4: Online Shopping: 線上購物

Morrisons confirms it won’t launch its service until 2013. But will that be too late?
(1) multi-channel 多元管道
(2) Consumers are much more empowered and knowledgeable.
(3) hassle (n.) 麻煩

C5: Prescription Charges 蘇格蘭4/1起廢除處方籤收費

Prescription charges will be abolished in Scotland tomorrow leaving England as the only UK country which continues charging patients. The BMA calls this a 'tax on the poor' and want it scrapped.
(1) bureaucratic (a.) 官僚作風的

C6: Gambling Laws: 博奕法規鬆綁是否能挽救酒吧?

Proposals have been made for a relaxation of gambling laws in order to boost the economy. But is gambling in pubs a good idea?
(1) deregulation 解除管制
(2) margin of error 誤差幅度
(3) liberalization 自由主義
(4) Gambling keeps you mentally alert.

C7: Scotch whiskey 蘇格蘭威士忌

Scotch whiskey producers are celebrating another year of record exports, but how is their whisky enjoyed in other countries?
(1) international reputation for its quality.
(2) impressive rival
(3) outsell by a long way


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zt3pm

過勞死 英文怎麼說

過勞死: Karoshi = death from overwork

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2011/03/15/294686/Overwork-confirmed.htm

The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) has ruled that an engineer who died last year was the victim of overwork and the deceased man's family is entitled to labor insurance compensations. In a report released at an investigative hearing on March 14, Fu Huan-jan, director of CLA's Department of Labor Safety and Health, announced an engineer with computer memory chipmaker Nanya Technology Corporation, surnamed Hsu, died from Karoshi, a Japanese term meaning death from overwork.
According to Fu, occupation factors triggered cerebral-vascular symptoms in the man.
After Hsu died in January of 2010, his family suspected he died from overwork and duly requested that CLA initiate investigative procedures to look into his workload before his death. The CLA complied by forming a panel of 17 experts, who have found that Hsu died from “occupational diseases.”
According to Fu, Hsu's family is entitled to Labor Insurance compensation equivalent to Hsu's salary for 45 months.
Members of Hsu's family and representatives from Nanya were invited to the hearing.
Karoshi as a cause of death was first recognized in Japan.